Photo of Jeffrey G. Rau

Email: jrau@uwindsor.ca
Office: 289-1 Essex Hall
Address: 401 Sunset Ave Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4

I’m an assistant professor at the University of Windsor focusing on theoretical condensed matter physics.

Most of my research falls under the broad heading of quantum magnetism, with some excursions into strongly correlated systems more generally. Recently I’ve been focusing on various realizations of frustrated magnets with strong anisotropy, such as found in rare-earth and heavy transition metal magnets. Some recent work is highlighted below. A full list of publications is available here.

Previously, I did post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (2017-2019) and with Michel Gingras at the University of Waterloo (2014-2017). I received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2008-2014) in the group of Hae-Young Kee, and my undergraduate degree from the University of Windsor (2005-2008).

INS data on K2IrCl6
Spin-split Fermi surface in an altermagnet
Pseudo-Goldstone Gap vs. Temperature
Square ice with hot and cold thermal baths
Tetrahedron with symmetry planes
Pyrochlore spinel lattice with inequivalent bonds coloured

Some recent work:

Observing Altermagnetism using Polarized Neutrons
arxiv:2410.10771
Pulling order back from the brink of disorder: Observation of a nodal line spin liquid and fluctuation stabilized order in K2IrCl6
arxiv:2407.17559
Ground state properties of the Heisenberg-compass model on the square lattice
Physical Review B 110, 104426 (2024) arxiv:2404.02196
Landau Theory of Altermagnetism
Physical Review Letters 132, 176702 (2024) Editors' Suggestion arxiv:2308.04484
Pseudo-Goldstone modes and dynamical gap generation from order-by-thermal-disorder
Physical Review Letters 130, 266702 (2023) arxiv:2301.11948